Garden Islands of the Great East : Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk 'Cheng Ho' by Fairchild, David - 1943

NY: Scribner's. Good; Library marks.. 1944. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv, 239p. , index. .

Charles Scribners, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 239 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. 239 pages, black & white photos, printed on wartime paper. Navy boards are very scuffed, bleached and edgeworn. Library pockets have been removed, some library stamps. Text is clean & unmarked. . Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Good. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948, 239 pages, tight hardcover, no dust jacket, no underlining, bookplate on end paper, light wear.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light rubbing. No jacket. In red cloth. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xiv (ii), 239 (2), Foreword, 31 chapters, Index. list of more than 150 b&w photos, illus. First Edition, rear panel with text and photo of Fairchild, along with text of rear flap of DJ has been pasted between the rear e.p. and the last page of the index, sitting flat and inconspicuously, but it might be difficultt to remove it. Very light external wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white. 6.5" x 9.5". Blue cloth with silver lettering to front board and spine, and illustrated end papers..

NY: Scribner's. Very Good-. 1943. Hardcover. 239p. , illus. .

Charles Scribner s Sons, . First EDition With Scribner A. Hardbound. Very Good, Clean, Light Wear At Extremities and Fade At Spine area, Jacket Missing. Sm Quarto, Rose Color Cloth With Silver Lettering. 1943 B & W Photo Plates, Map Decorated End Papers Sm Quarto, Rose Color Cloth With Silver Lettering, , PP.239, Collecting Seeds From The Philippines And Netherlands India IN The Junk Cheng Ho; Provenance: From the library of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy 1941-2021 an American Ecologist, Yale University Graduate and President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center in Brazil. He also held appointments at the United Nations, George Mason University, and the World Bank and received recognition worldwide for his work including posthumously from the National Geographic Society with its highest honor the Hubbard Medal. Credited with E. O. Wilson of coining the term  biological diversity in 1980, he spent his life working in science and public policy. D16f

Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Wine Red Cloth Stamped In Silver, Map Endpapers. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, corner chips, edge wear, soiling. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1944.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943, First edition, first issue with the 'A' on the verso title. . original cloth, silver title lettering on spine and front cover, minimal rubbing to edge, else fine clean copy. . large 8vo [24 x 16 cm], xiv, 239 pp, frontis, well illustrated from photos, pictorial endpapers, index. . By the well-known American plant and seed collector; he had a tropical garden in Florida named after him. This book includes numerous fascinating photos, mainly of plant life but also of the native peoples, throughout the Malaya archipelago and related islands. Fairchild and his party were the last Americans to visit the Celebes and the Moluccas before the Japanese invaded in 1940. A picture of this book is available on request by email.